Gates holds court at annual summit of CEOs
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates opened the company's 11th annual CEO Summit on Wednesday morning, giving the 111 chief executives cloistered in Redmond his view on how computers are changing the way business is done.
He divided the so-called digital work style into three levels, putting e-mail, word processing and attachments into the most basic level and saying that most companies have arrived there.
The next higher level, which he termed "empowered," uses networked presentations for training rather than sending employees away to an off-site meeting. It tests them after presentations and notifies managers of their progress.